Animator Chuck Jones based the Warner Brothers cartoon character "Pepe Le Pew" on Pepe le Moko (Charles Boyer).
The allure of Hedy Lamarr and the exotic location of the Casbah were two of the chief inspirations for Casablanca (1942), but MGM refused to release Lamarr from her contract for the Warner Brothers film.
Remake of the French Pepe le Moko - Im Dunkel von Algier (1937). When Walter Wanger produced this film, he tried to have all copies of the original destroyed. Fortunately, he was unsuccessful.
When Julius Epstein, one of several screenwriters for Casablanca (1942), was trying to pitch it to David O. Selznick, from whom they wanted to borrow their preferred female star - Ingrid Bergman, Epstein started in on a long, drawn-out summary but finally wrapped up with, "Oh, what the hell! It's going to be a lot of shit like 'Algiers'!"